Public Transp. Security

Public bus or transit security was not much of an issue in the 1960s and 1970s because many transit companies provided their own policing agents on their busses. However, over the past two decades, particularly in high crime neighborhoods in urban cities, riding the bus has become a security risk especially in the minds of the public, “Transit riders run twice the risk of being victim as non-transit ride

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n the number of police officers is justified by the vastly reduced amount of crime. Subway transit workers feel differently, “If there’s a fourteen-percent drop in the number of officers in Transit Authority police district offices, we’re very concerned, because having these officers physically in the subway system is very important. You want the perception of as much a presence as you can possibly muster” (Moses 2-3). RAIL TRANSPORT SECURITY The transport is generally considered by the public as a safe means of transit. However, one of the biggest problems with security in rail transit is the numbers of lives that are lost each year at railroad crossings, despite increasing attempts to make the crossings safer and the public more aware of the dangers and necessary precautions involved with them. Because of a widening flow of federal research and development dollars, an increasing number of high-technology companies are devising solutions to help ensure greater security to this aspect of rail transit. These measures are designed not only to save the lives of those who must use the crossings, but also those on the trains that must pass through them. An amazing number of technology oriented security measures have been des
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Approximate Word count = 1956
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)

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